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Late Stalinist Russia: society between reconstruction and reinvention
In: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies 29
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society. By Ann Komaromi. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Pres, 2022. xviii, 318 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $49.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 82, Heft 2, S. 562-564
ISSN: 2325-7784
Liberating Madness – Punishing Insanity: Soviet Hippies and the Politics of Craziness
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 832-860
ISSN: 1461-7250
This article looks at an important interface between the small community of Soviet hippies and Soviet authorities: the politics of madness. Like dissidents, hippies often found themselves forcefully sequestered in psychiatric institutions. Yet an account of state repression against colourful, innocent flower children does not give justice to the complicated power games that were fought on the battlefield of craziness. Hippies used the ease with which diagnoses of schizophrenia were handed out to obtain exemption from the army. They embraced and fostered the label 'crazy', subverting official actions through absolute acceptance rather than resistance. At the same time, they feared the loss of control that came with psychiatric treatment, yet re-invented their often traumatic experiences into a marker of their identity. The relationship between hippies and Soviet psychiatry reflects the multi-layered entanglement, which bound the Soviet system with one of its most unruly subjects. Hippie politics of craziness defy easy classification in conformism and dissent, instead highlighting the way in which a group at the margins of society made use of the political environment they lived in, subverting and succumbing to it at the same time.
Love, Peace and Rock 'n' Roll on Gorky Street: The 'Emotional Style' of the Soviet Hippie Community
In: Contemporary European history, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 565-587
ISSN: 1469-2171
AbstractSoviet hippies were in many ways a paradoxical phenomenon. They imitated an ideal that was shaped by American realities in a Soviet world. They were anti-Soviet, yet they professed an apolitical life style. This article proposes that rather than looking at the Soviet hippies with ideology in mind it is more fruitful to consider them an emotional community whose 'emotional style' differed from the Soviet mainstream and ultimately proved a formidable challenge to the Soviet system. The article investigates several exterior markers of Soviet hippie culture, which formed and reflected the 'emotional style' of the Soviet hippies such as their creed of love and peace, their enjoyment of rock music and the significance of hippie fashion. Drawing on interviews with contemporary witnesses from the Soviet hippie scene particular attention is given to the new rhetoric hippies employed to describe emotions particular to their style of life, to the way the practice of these emotions differed from the official Soviet emotional codex and to the nexus that linked the vocabulary and practice of emotions with specific items, sites, rituals and attributes. The article concludes that, while Soviet hippies remained a subculture, their style, including their 'emotional style' proved very durable and capable of expansion into the mainstream, ultimately surviving the Soviet system and its emotional norms.
Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation. By Donald J. Raleigh. Oxford Oral History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xi, 421 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $34.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 955-956
ISSN: 2325-7784
Explaining the Inexplicable: Youth and Post‐War Ideological Campaigns
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 64-94
Redefining Sovietness: Fashion, Style, and Nonconformity
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 200-249
Wartime Heroes for Post‐War Youth: The Rise and Fall of The Young Guard
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 137-166
Comrades, Friends, and Lovers: Post‐War Personal Relations and Gender Identities in Theory and Practice
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 250-291
Morals under Siege: The Myth and Reality of Juvenile Crime
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 167-199
Patterns of Participation: Finding a Self in the System
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 292-341
Mechanisms of Integration: Rituals, Icons, and Idols
In: Stalin's Last Generation, S. 95-136